On Oct. 30, along with 60 classmates, I graduated from the 35th GBC Leadership Class, positively the Best Class Ever. The experience was so vast in depth and impact for me. With such an in-depth level of learning about the ...

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Since starting my business in 2009, I have leveraged a model of outsourcing several critical business functions that have contributed to the ability to grow over time. Before branching out of the large investment firm where I worked, I was ...

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I often find myself in conversations advising college students and recent graduates about how to navigate the start of their career paths. These inquiries range from a parent’s insistence to a professor’s suggestion and sometimes from the individual by his ...

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With the increasing focus on diversity & inclusion (D&I) within our work communities, there is a growing acceptance that having a set of people who look, think, talk, act and simply are different from one another creates the most impactful ...

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I am in the market for a new home. This surprises me, given how much of a city girl I am. I have loved living in Butchers Hill, one of many neighborhoods in Baltimore that provides such a rich city ...

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For so many of us in professional services, when you reach a certain point in your career there is an inflection point when you evolve beyond being a service provider to becoming a trusted adviser. With this role comes an ...

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For many of us, regaining the life we want is more a matter of gaining and less a sense that we ever intentionally carved out the space we imagined for each of the priorities in our lives. This has never ...

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It is no secret that I am a full believer in second chances. As someone who has always been drawn to people who have achieved greatly in part due to a chance at redemption, I am inspired to see people ...

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Here we are in March with this sense that 2019 already feels long. Many colleagues have shared that they also feel fatigued at a time of year when many of us are typically in prime time with tax season in ...

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A few weeks ago saw the kickoff of the 2019 class of the Baltimore Leadership program, a class I am privileged to be a part of. The two-day opening program was full of content that was informative, thought-provoking, fun, inspirational ...

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